Corallus cropanii, or Cropani's tree boa, is a species of boa, a snake in the family Boidae. The species is endemic to the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Like all boas, it is not venomous. No subspecies are currently recognized.[2] Until 2017, no specimen of this snake had been seen alive since 1953 and only five dead specimens had been collected since then, but in late January 2017, an adult female Cropan's tree boa measuring 1.7 m (5.6 ft) was captured by locals in Ribeira who brought it to herpetologists from the Instituto Butantan and the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo, who radio-tagged and released the animal to learn more about the species' behavior.[3][4]
The Cropani's tree boa is considered endangered.[5]
^McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
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^Moscato, David (14 February 2017). "Rare snake seen alive for the first time in over six decades". Earth Touch News Network. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
^"Elusive boa surfaces in Brazil". Science. Vol. 355, no. 6326. p. 671. Scientists hadn't seen a live Cropan's boa (Corallus corpanii) since 1953; the snake, thought to be the rarest boid in the world, has only been spotted five times in the ensuing decades, and it was always dead.
^Marques, O. (30 June 2009). "Corallus cropanii (Cropan's Boa)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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